DARE Interview : Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Primary Informant AL014

Fieldworker

Hausmann, Robert

Date

• 1966

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• AL014: Black; female; age: 39 (young); education: grade school; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: AL014 (8:13) [Some mechanical clicking sounds in background]
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0016-S1).
• [Transcription available]
• Content:
• 00:25 Carrying lunch to school in a pail
• 03:10 Making corn bread in legged skillet
• 03:50 Cooking with wood stove, cleaning it, hot water tank in later stove
• 07:20 Rooms of house; heating house
• 09:10 Little brothers, parents' jobs
• 11:00 Making syrup
• 13:45 Helping with cotton
• 16:30 Old food prices, what they ate
• 18:40 Butchering hogs
• 21:05 Sharing food with neighbors
• 24:10 Playing with White children, community
• 27:35 Church
• 29:10 Preacher
• 30:55 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0016-S2).
• Content:
• 00:10 Arthur the Rat
• 08:45 Tape end
• Full Interview 3 (Tape 0017-S1).
• Content:
• 00:40 Brushing teeth with a stick
• 01:55 Naming things in rooms—living room
• 07:35 Pictures of birds on wall
• 08:20 Hallway
• 09:55 Front bedroom
• 11:25 Mildew problems
• 12:55 Redbugs
• 14:05 Sewing machines
• 15:20 Boys' bedroom, gas heaters
• 17:10 Bathroom furnishings
• 23:10 Kitchen
• 24:00 Cooking utensils
• 26:55 Washing machine
• 27:45 Canning berries
• 31:30 Tape end
• Full Interview 4 (Tape 0017-S2).
• Content:
• 00:10 Canning, continued
• 02:45 Freezing peaches
• 03:20 Apple jelly, also blackberry, pear, or peach jelly
• 06:35 Preserving peas and corn, blanching, okra slightly different
• 09:30 Pear preserves, freezing apples
• 12:35 Funerals—her experience
• 16:10 Funerals—what happened at one
• 20:05 What she grows in the garden
• 24:15 Fertilizer
• 26:10 Watering garden
• 27:10 Dancing in summers as child
• 28:50 Going to the park
• 30:20 Memories of Pearl Harbor
• 31:45 Tape end